Autohemotherapy
clinics, or "autohemotherapists" per se, do
not appear to be readily available anywhere in
the United States, as of 2015. However,
virtually any medical office can provide this
service if requested, and if the office is
agreeable. Indeed, the practice of
autohemotherapy was very common all around the
U.S during the first half of the 20th Century,
most commonly by, but not limited to,
dermatologists and allergists.. Any nurse
(or other health practitioner) that is able
and duly legally authorized to draw blood can
do so and does do so every day. So the
only issue is whether the blood so-drawn might
be re-injected intra-muscularly (or
subcutaneously), somewhat immediately, into
the same patient. The book,
AUTOHEMOTHERAPY REFERENCE MANUAL, incorporates
a listing of nearly a thousand articles,
mostly involving the intramuscular
re-injection of autologous blood, that
comprise testimony that the practice has been
safely practicedover
many decades.

Not
long after this writer had learned of the
practice from Bert Cuyugan, the son of a
Filipino doctor who had used it during World
II when he ran out of quinine, I learned its
name, "autohemotherapy" from a dermatologist
in San Francisco. When I later attempted
to find a practitioner in Los Angeles, in the
early 1990's, I was able to make contact with
a dermatologist, Sam Tasker, MD, who had been
using it for years, albeit mostly on difficult
dermatology cases. At the time, Dr.
Tasker used a method he described as "the
Russian method", which was comprised of 3 cc
of freshly drawn blood, with a small amount
residual air in the syringe, which was
then briefly shaken to more thoroughly mix the
oxygen, and then nearly immediately
re-injected into the muscle in the upper-arm /
shoulder. He did not change the needle
in the process, using the same size needle, 25
x 5/8, for both withdrawing and re-injection.
His practice was to repeat the treatment as
needed bi-weekly
or weekly.

Unfortunately
Dr. Tasker closed his practice in the 1990s
and is longer with us. A lengthy interview
with Dr. Tasker, it is available on YouTube,
accessible through instituteofscience.com or
youtube.com (s h
shakman). Also on the website
are discussions and links, including some
examples of self-injections, e.g.,

Sam Tasker MD (1907-1999) was a genuine humanitarian and dear
friend to all who enjoyed the pleasure of his acquaintance. He was
a practicing a dermatologist for more than 60 years, first in
Philadelphia and ten in Los Angeles, where he served on the staff
at Cedar Sinai Hospital for more than a half-century and also was
an instructor on the graduate level at USC.

Dr. Tasker integrated conventional methodologies with
proven folk or other approaches.While by no means the major thrust of his work,
autohemotherapy comprised a vital tool in his practice
throughout his decades of service, a tool he didot hesitate to use
when all else failed.Dr.
Tasker with this writer on the subject of autohemotherapy from
1990 through his retirement at age 88, and unhesitantly and
proudly claimed the designation of “autohemotherapist”.